On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:04:36PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > partition_config.c : If there is only one drive, assume that is the drive we > want to partition. FIXME: do we like this? > Ask the user if they want to auto partition the drive. If so then take the first > drive and divide it into 3 partitions boot 20M, swap 200M and root (rest of space). is this code intended to be portable, or #if #cpu(i386) ? if its meant to be portable note that not all archs can boot from a boot sector, most powerpcs for example require an 800K bootstrap partition where the bootblocks are installed, depending on the subarch this will be a Apple_Bootstrap type (macs, mac partition tables) or 0x41 (PReP, IBM CHRP, msdos partition tables). ia64 also requires a similar bootstrap partition. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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